21 May 2018
UK proposes ambitious national defence space strategy
.... “Satellite technology is not just a crucial tool for our armed forces but vital to our way of life, whether that be access to... launch forward in the space domain.” Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hiller, said: "I am determined ...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
... rural Oxfordshire and on the site of a former Royal Air Force station lies a multi-disciplinary laboratory that has been leading... space sector, helping SMEs to develop space capability. Royal Observatory Edinburgh. At the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus in...
February 2020
Opportunity knocks for UK space industry
...non-executive roles in companies and organisations including the Royal Air Force. In a wide-ranging interview for ROOM, ...from space debris to navigation in space. We’ll need a proper air traffic control system for space, managed as efficiently as it ...
10 January 2023
Virgin Orbit fails to deliver on first launch from UK
... off precisely on time at 1701 EST (2201 GMT) Monday (January 9, 2023). Piloted by Sqn Ldr Matthew Stannard, a Royal Air Force test pilot, it headed out over the Atlantic to the south west of Ireland to reach a height of 35,000 ft (10,700...
09 October 2018
Countdown to London’s Global MilSatCom conference
... Orbital ATK, Raytheon, SES Networks, Spanish MoD, Thales US, Thales Defense & Security, UK MoD, UK Royal Air Force, UK Space Agency, US AFRICOM, US Air Force, US Department of Defense, US Marine Corps and Viasat Visit the website to book your place...
18 February 2018
Space Launch Complex 10: Vandenberg’s Cold War National Landmark
...-10 had two main applications: between 1959 and 1962, it was used for ‘combat training launches’ by the UK’s Royal Air Force; and between 1965 and 1980 it launched American weather satellites in the Defense Meteorological Support Program (DMSP...
